Should economics be taught to geeks?

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When I interview developers for jobs I'm really astonished by their lack of economics consciousness. It seems they think they'll be recruited just for technological fun. When you ask them for technical solutions they would just follow hypes from software editors without consideration for the economics part.

I have rejected 80% of candidates just for that kind of reason. I don't know if other recruiters ask economics questions, but as for me that is one of the main criterias.

That is why I prefer to enquiry by myself on technical questions because I just don't trust the geeks choice.

So did you learn economics at school ? At mine yes and that did serve me.

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